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Kathryn Tomasek has been exploring the use of digital tools to enhance student learning since 1992. She began to use XML compatible with the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative in assignments requiring transcription and markup of primary sources in 2004. As part of the Wheaton College Digital History Project, students in her courses do original research with documents from the founding period of the college.

Tomasek’s research project, Encoding Financial Records, received a Start-Up Grant from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2011. She is currently a member of the American Historical Association’s ad hoc Committee on the Professional Evaluation of Digital Publications by Historians.

Main Interests

Digital Humanities/Digital History
U.S. Women’s History
Women’s Studies/Digital Feminisms
19th-century United States

Other Interests

Tomasek spends a lot of time watching movies, reads everything from Welsh mythology to comix to high literature and a lot of stuff in between, and dances a mean Texas two-step whenever she has the chance.

Not a Nervous Man: Gender Anxiety and Women’s Rights in Antebellum Bangor, Maine, in Of Place and Gender: Essays on Women in Maine History, ed. Marli F. Weiner (Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 2005), 27-50.

Student Projects

The Wheaton College Digital History Project has used collaborations among faculty, students, and members of the staff of Library and Information Services to digitize primary sources related to the founding of Wheaton Female Seminary since 2005. In the summers of 2005-2008, students transcribed, encoded and proofread the travel journal and diaries of Eliza B. Wheaton. In spring 2009 and 2010, students in History 302 transcribed and encoded transactions from the account books of Laban Morey Wheaton.